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The Carny Lyrics

Artist: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Album: Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

And no-one saw the carny goAnd the weeks flew byUntil they moved on the showLeaving his caravan behindIt was parked out on the south east ridgeAnd as the company crossed the bridgeWith the first rain filling the bone-dry river bedIt shone, just so, upon the edgeAway, away, we're sad, they said

Dog-boy, atlas, half-man, the geeks, the hired handsThere was not one among them that did not cast an eye behindIn the hope that the carny would return to his own kind

And the carny had a horse, all skin and boneA bow-backed nag, that he named "Sorrow"How it is buried in a shallow graveIn the then parched meadow

And the dwarves were given the task of digging the ditchAnd laying the nag's carcass in the groundAnd boss Bellini, waving his smoking pistol aroundsaying "The nag is dead meat""We caint afford to carry dead weight"The whole company standing aboutNot making a soundAnd turning to dwarves perched on the enclosure gateThe boss says "Bury this lump of crow bait"

And thean the rain cameEverybody running for their wagonsTying all the canvas flaps downThe mangy cats crowling in ther cagesThe bird-girl flapping and squawking aroundThe whole valley reeking of wet beastWet beast and rotten hayFreak and brute creationPacked up and on their way

The three dwarves peering from their wagon's hindMoses says to Noah "We shoulda dugga deepa one"Their grizzled faces like dying moonsStill dirty from the digging done

And as the company passed from the valleyInto a higher groundThe rain beat on the ridge and on the meadowAnd on the mound

Until nothing was left, nothing at allExcept the body of SorrowThat rose in timeTo float upon the surface of the eaten soil

And a murder of crows did circle roundFirst one, then the others flapping blackly down

And the carny's van still sat upon the edgeTilting slowly as the firm ground turned to sludgeAnd the rain it hammered down